a member, limb
Primary meaning: a member, limb. Strong's: a limb or part of the body. Lexical nuances: a member , limb of the body: I Co 12:14 , 19 , 26 , Eph 4:16 (WH, mg.), Ja 3:5 ; pl. (as always in cl.), τὰ μ. : Mt 5:29 , 30 , Ro 6:13 , 19 7:5 , 23 12:4 , I Co 12:12 ff. Col 3:5 , Ja 3:6 4:1 . Metaph., πόρνης , I Co 6:15 ; of Christians, μ. ἀλλήλων , Ro 12:5 , Eph 4:25 ; Χριστοῦ , I Co 6:15 ; σώματος Χριστοῦ , I Co 12:27 , Eph 5:30 .†
Derivation: of uncertain affinity;
a body, a person, a slave
Primary meaning: a body, a person, a slave. Strong's: the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, literally or figuratively. Lexical nuances: a body . Prop., of the human body, as always in Hom. (opp. to δέμας ), of the dead body: Mt 27:58 , 59 Mk 15:43 , al.; of the living body: Lk 11:34 , I Co 6:13 , al.; ἐν σ. εἶναι , He 13:3 ; as the instrument of the soul, τὰ διὰ τοῦ σ. , II Co 5:10 ; opp. to πνεῦμα , Ro 8:10 , I Co 5:3 7:4 , Ja 2:26 ; to ψυχή , Mt 6:25 10:28 , Lk 12:22 (cf. Wi 1:4 , al.); to τὸ π. καὶ ἡ ψ. , I Th 5:23 ; σ. ψυχι...
Derivation: from G4982 (σώζω);
flesh, body, humanity, frailty
Flesh, physical body, humanity; expresses human kinship ('one flesh') and creaturely transience in contrast to the eternal Spirit of God.
Derivation: From בָּשַׂר (H1319) to be fresh.
1 Corinthians • Chapter 12 (31 verses)
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man c... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah .
Biblical Metaphors, Nicene Attributes, and the Reformation Notae Ecclesiae
The Church is divinely instituted by Christ ( Matt 16:18 ) and revealed as the Spirit-baptized Body of Christ , Bride of Christ, and spiritual Temple ( 1 Cor 12 , Eph 2 , 1 Pet 2 ). The institutional marks (Notae Ecclesiae) and polity forms (episcopal, presbyterian, congregational) represent long-standing scholarly debate.
Romans • Chapter 12 (21 verses)
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah .
flesh
Primary meaning: flesh. Strong's: flesh (as stripped of the skin), i.e. (strictly) the meat of an animal (as food), or (by extension) the body (as opposed to the soul (or spirit), or as the symbol of what is external, or as the means of kindred), or (by implication) human nature (with its frailties (physically or morally) and passions), or (specially), a human being (as such). Lexical nuances: flesh ; as in cl. generally, prop., of the soft substance of the animal body: I Co 15:39 , II Co 12:7 , Ga 6:13 , al.; σ. καὶ αἷμα , I Co 5:50 ; σ. καὶ ὀστέα , Lk 24:39 ; pl., of the flesh of many or parts of the flesh of one (cl.), Re 17:16 19:18 ; φαγεῖν , Re, ll. c. (cf. κατεσθίειν , IV Ki 9:36 , al., and βιβρώσκειν , freq. in l.); metaph., Ja 5:3 ; mystically, φ. (τρώγειν) τὴν σ. τοῦ υἱοῦ τ...
Derivation: probably from the base of G4563 (σαρόω);
2 Corinthians • Chapter 12 (21 verses)
It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third hea... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah .
Romans • Chapter 6 (23 verses)
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah.
Hebrews • Chapter 13 (25 verses)
Let brotherly love continue. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , Italy .
Romans • Chapter 8 (39 verses)
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus , who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak thro... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah.
Ephesians • Chapter 4 (32 verses)
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah .
Colossians • Chapter 3 (25 verses)
If ye then be risen with Christ , seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah.
James • Chapter 3 (18 verses)
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may o...
2 Corinthians • Chapter 5 (21 verses)
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: If so be that being clothed w... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah .
Ephesians • Chapter 3 (21 verses)
For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah.
1 Corinthians • Chapter 13 (13 verses)
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains,...
Romans • Chapter 7 (25 verses)
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of h... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah .
Galatians • Chapter 5 (26 verses)
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah.
2 Corinthians • Chapter 4 (18 verses)
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscien... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah .
Colossians • Chapter 2 (23 verses)
For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea , and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the ackn... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , Laodicea .
1 Corinthians • Chapter 6 (20 verses)
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge ... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah .
Ephesians • Chapter 2 (22 verses)
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conv... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , Jacob/Israel .
James • Chapter 4 (17 verses)
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask a...
Galatians • Chapter 3 (29 verses)
O foolish Galatians , who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah, Abram/Abraham .
2 Esdras • Chapter 8 (63 verses)
And he answered me, and said, The Most High has made this world for many, but the world to come for few. I will tell you now a similitude, Esdras; As when you asks the earth, it shall say to you, that it gives very much mould whereof earthen vessels are made, and little dust that... Mentions: Jacob/Israel .
1 Corinthians • Chapter 5 (13 verses)
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from am... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah .
the love of brothers, brotherly love
Primary meaning: the love of brothers, brotherly love. Strong's: fraternal affection. Lexical nuances: the love of brothers, brotherly love : of Christians' mutual love as brethren (v.s. ἀδελφός ), Ro 12:10 , I Th 4:9 , He 13:1 , I Pe 1:22 , II Pe 1:7 .†
Derivation: from G5361 (φιλάδελφος);
Galatians • Chapter 6 (18 verses)
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ . For if a man think himself to be something, when he i... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , Jacob/Israel .
nation, gentile, people group
Nation, body of people, pagan gentiles; geopolitical peoples of earth in distinction from Israel, yet promised redemption through seed of Abraham.
Derivation: From an unused root meaning to assemble.
The Second Book of the Maccabees • Chapter 9 (29 verses)
Now about that time it befell that Antiochus had returned in disorder from the region of Persia . For he had entered into the city called Persepolis, and he assayed to rob a temple and to hold down the city. Whereupon there was an onset of the multitudes, and Antiochus and his ... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Persia , Ecbatana , Jerusalem , Athens , Egypt .
Luke • Chapter 24 (53 verses)
Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , Mary , James ( Jacob ), Jacob/Israel , Moses , Galilee , Emmaus , Jerusalem , Nazareth , Bethany 1 .
inward part, midst, innermost being
Inward part, entrails, midst of body or community; where God renews a steadfast spirit and writes Torah.
Derivation: From קָרַב (H7126) to approach.
2 Corinthians • Chapter 3 (18 verses)
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ minis... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , Jacob/Israel , Moses .
Upper Room Institution, Patristic Liturgies, and Historical Theories of Real Presence
Instituted directly by Jesus on the night He was betrayed during the Passover meal ( Matt 26:26-28 , 1 Cor 11:23-26 ) as the covenant communion in His blood and body. The exact nature of Christ 's presence (Transubstantiation, Consubstantiation, Spiritual Presence, Memorialism) is a primary historic theological debate.